Fred Durst Quotes

I wouldn't support Limp Bizkit being on some snuff backyard brawling, fighting contest.

My life. The life I'm living that's where all my inspiration comes from. Real life experiences.

I'm 38 years old and Limp Bizkit is just something I do. If I was a painter, it would just be a type of painting I make.

I loved the Cure and Bauhaus and the Smiths. The people in my town weren't privy to that kind of music and I got abused. I discovered the microphone to get out some of that angst.

When Wes came back to Limp Bizkit, we really wanted to do something different. We wanted to make a core record that we didn't care who liked or who disliked.

There's some people who are not understanding what Limp Bizkit is about. But, then again, who am I to tell people what they can use art for or how they can interpret it?

One of the things that was confusing about Limp Bizkit to some people is that our tastes were very different.

The future is easy because it doesn’t exist; but the past is painful because it lives forever.

Limp Bizkit Ice Cream would taste like the sweetest pair of panties in the world. It would taste like sushi. Sushi or panties.

That's your best friend and your worst enemy - your own brain.

I think the key is to realize that life is temporary and spending life questioning life is a waste of time.

There's definitely an obstacle in developing a brand for yourself that people can rely on when you're so eclectic.

It's amazing how, over time, a person's perspective can be altered.

Emotionally, I was affected a lot by Rage Against the Machine, not specifically the literal intention of the words or what it was about, but the feel, the sound, those phrases that got me.

Prague is a dark place.

Everybody loves the underdog, and then they take an underdog and make him a hero and they hate him.

Imperfections make someone perfect to me.

To walk around with an ego is a bad thing. To have confidence in yourself is a great thing.

I don't think my name would necessarily draw people to come see the movie. It might hurt the movie, honestly.

When you reminisce aren't the times that someone's forcing you to reminisce. You reminisce other times in your life.

Without those hackers, we wouldn't solve the problems we need to solve, especially security.

Anybody who wears their feelings on their sleeve and has a harder, crusty shell - like I do - is definitely protecting an inner sensitivity.

It's not about how much movement you do, how much interaction there is, it just reeks of credibility if it's real. If it's contrived, it seems to work for a while for the people who can't filter out the real and unreal.

I love electronic music, and I love drum and bass.

I stopped predicting the future a long time ago.

Directing a movie is serious, it's not a joke.

I love jazz music and sad music. I'm a sentimental guy. I'm a romantic guy.

There's an insecure part of me that comes out of me, I get nervous. I don't know why, I wish I could overcome it because it gives me an anxiety feeling.

Being in front of all these people staring at you and it helps you to dig down and become more emotional and get lost in it as you're feeding on people's energy.

When life was worrying about a car payment or a rent payment and a bill, you're so consumed with that, you really don't have time to know yourself. That's surviving and getting by.

I'm definitely on the incline to a peak.

Everybody loves the underdog, and then they take an underdog and make him a hero and they hate him. But as long as they can knock you back down, it seems like if you're an underdog again, and things do surface, and they think this is real, 'these guys' intentions are genuine and sincere,' it seems like they will embrace you again.

I love jazz music and sad music.

I didn't want to do a throwaway, mindless movie with fart jokes just to make 6-year-olds laugh. I want to provide my children with some substance.

I won't deny a song or a melody. I can't deny it.

I've always wanted to make movies.

I've been around golf my whole life. My father did it all the time, and I resented him for it. But a couple years ago I picked up a golf club and I understood the physics of it. If anyone knows anything about golf, it's that once you hit a few shots, you'll become addicted.

If you wanna know how not secure you are, just take a look around. Nothing's secure. Nothing's safe. I don't hate technology, I don't hate hackers, because that's just what comes with it, without those hackers we wouldn't solve the problems we need to solve, especially security.

I made a lot mistakes that I'm grateful for, because I won't make them again and I won't let my artists make them, or I'll tell them, 'Don't do this.' A lot of them still make them anyway, but you can't be told things when you're doing your own thing.

I was a kid who got picked on in school and got beat up by popular, athletic soccer-type people.

I do think that some bands seem to be dabbling in the rock-hip-hop world and are not necessarily serious about it.

I want to clear my mind a little bit and give my mind a little bit of time to breathe so I can pinpoint or at least nail down feelings I'm having and that I've had for the last however long. I need to nail them down long enough to actually write about and elaborate on them.

You know, in my music career there was a moment where the irony was just so heavy. There were people in my audience that were the reason I developed neuroses. These people that tortured my life were using my art, my poetry, as fuel for them, to torture other people.

I have always been Fred Durst and I've always been me.

When you're a kid, you see your parents reading the newspaper and you're like, 'God, why are they reading the newspaper?' When you're young, you're not reading the newspaper. But there comes a time in your life when the newspaper's cool.

I usually find several ways to express myself: different moods, different days, different voices, different things, 'I'm lighthearted today, I'm gonna do this.'

People evolve and grow, and life is fascinating and fun and tragic.

When you say something is very different to a core base that expects heavy music from you or very aggressive music, everybody tends to go, 'Oh, they're gonna get mellow, they're gonna get soft.'

I'm always looking for new talent.

I'm OCD beyond comparison.